City of Steam Beta

As announced here,
steampunk MMOG City of Steam is now
in beta testing, noting that although
last week they announced this
was change from an "early access" beta to an open beta, they've since changed
their minds again, and it's in early access mode again. Here's the explanation:
"Now you’re of course all saying: 'But hey, you said that you were going to do
Open Beta next!' …we still are! This is a prelude to that. Think 'early
admission'." This post
explains how things have changed for the beta, and developer Mechanist Games
says: "We're also working together with R2Games to make a VERY aggressive
content release schedule possible that will make a lot of new content available
to play and test over the coming weeks and months." Though the beta is not
"open," it actually shouldn't be hard to join, since they say they are
guaranteeing keys for newsletter subscribers.